The dad's guide to why summer feels shorter every year

I wrote this for Boston Globe Magazine in July and I read it out loud for you today.

Man on fire, dodging mosquitos, jumping in the ocean which is obviously covered in cyanobacteria blooms. Ai.

Listen to it here:

‘You’ve got a tick here, pal.”

There’s a tiny black thing clinging to my kid’s kneepit.

“Tick pal?” my 2-year-old repeats, craning his neck.

I pull it off, inspect it, Google it, and learn it’s a “seed tick” in its larval stage of life. I flick it outside, and we decide to spend the rest of the day inside. It’s hot out there anyhow!

And if it’s not hot, it’s weirdly cold, or humid or raining for 16 weekends in a row. Or it’s August 28th and summer is over. I know, every July some jerk says summer is over before it’s over.

But we need that jerk.

Read the full thing here.